Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve...
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2006.10.09
He's at the FBI and he's still being questioned by Clea DuVall and she's not buying any of his bullshit. Someone's behind the two-way mirror taking notes, although we don't see who it is. Matt tries to explain that it was like someone was talking to him, only it was in his head. Clea pounces on this and asks if the voices tell him anything else, like, you know, "Kill your landlord!" or "Fruit is for Thursdays ONLY!" or "That beelzebang does not belong to you and it's really a muzzlepartok anyway!" Matt says that it's more like he can hear people's thoughts. Clea walks over to him. "Can you tell me what I'm thinking?" He says he can't because he can't control it; it just happens. She tells him to give it a shot. He half-assedly says she thinks he's nuts or stupid. "Stop wasting my time," she says with a sneer. Suddenly, Matt hones in on her thoughts and after a second, they become clear: "Come on, Parkman. I need this more than you. Nobody believes in me." "Nobody believes in you!" he says. "I know what that's like." Clea looks decidedly spooked. Matt rubs his hands over his face as Clea shoots a glance over her shoulder at whoever is behind the glass. Matt asks how much longer he has to be there and she says it depends. "How'd you like to work with the FBI?" Matt's stunned, but he nods his agreement.
Odessa. We're at Claire's locker as she's taking out a geometry book. Several posters pointed out that the DNA-like symbol shows up here, so I paused the TiVo and sure enough, there it is, right on the spine of the book. Nerdeo's spazzing off at Claire because she's leaving for an away game and the tape of her suicide experiments is missing and possibly in nefarious hands. Claire dismisses his concern and tries to walk away from him. Nerdeo keeps after her, amazed that she's just going to cheer and pump her pompoms and pretend she's like any other girl. Claire's quite content with being like any other girl, seeing as, if she announced her special powers to the world, she'd wind up a freak or a guinea pig or both; not really a future she relishes. "What's wrong with wanting to be normal?" she asks. "You should try it." Normal's overrated, Claire. Take it from someone who hasn't been normal since about 1975.